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Dashboard Confessional: Dusk and Summer

Ben Machell

August 5 2006, 1:00am, The Times

Whoever told Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba to just let it all out obviously knew what they were doing — his sensitive brand of emo- rock has made him a poster- boy for a generation of lovelorn teenage vegans.

With a full-time band now in tow, Carrabbas’s acoustic strumming is shelved in favour of relentless rock bombast paired with a quivering-lip delivery that is somewhat disorientating to anyone brought up on, say, the Smiths. On the other hand, if you’ve ever found yourself humming along to the music in US teen dramas, this is certainly worth investigating.

(Vagrant)

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